This is a must watch for any student… A presentation by Marty Lobdell with more than 25 MILLION VIEWS! Key Insights and Concepts Effective Study Duration: Typical college freshmen can study effectively for about 25-30 minutes before attention and comprehension decline significantly. Studying beyond this without breaks leads to diminishing returns and frustration. The Case […]
This strategy of spaced repetition is well documented as being highly effective but rarely done. The difference between EACH successive repetition SHOULD be more than enough incentive to give it a go… Students aren’t the only ones who “make their lives” harder by wanting things to be more complicated than they actually are. It’s the […]
Rote learning and syntopical learning represent opposite ends of the educational spectrum: One focuses on the rapid memorisation of individual facts through repetition, while the other involves high-level analysis and synthesis of multiple sources to build deep understanding. Rote Learning Rote learning is a technique based on repetition and memorisation without necessarily understanding the underlying […]
We all want to learn more, faster. This framework, provided by Lukas J.M. Stangl is just another great visual cue for your Reticular Activation System (RAS). The more you leverage tips and tools like this, the better, faster learner you’ll become. Learning is quite simple, but the challenge is to have the discipline and commitment […]
This is a great Mental Model to parse through all the content you’re curating as a student or life-long learner. Being syntopical about it, will improve your ability to synthesise and recall it later.
When I wrote the first edition of my book, How To Get The Best Grades With The Least Amount Of Effort, Personal computers were just coming to market and the Internet didn’t really exist. All we had were dial-up modems at 300 to 1200 baud to connect to mainframe computers… That was then and this […]
These are great study tips to help you get the best grades with the least amount of effort.
We all need to learn new things, for students they’re subjects in school and after graduation they’re concepts and constructs necessary for career development and progression. The previous post is a collection of strategies you need to review to complement the Feynman Technique explained below. The medical profession has a great motto for this technique: […]
This checklist is for textbooks, non-fiction books and/or technical reference manuals. A checklist to read a textbook properly Read the whole table of contents from top to bottom. Go to the back and read the glossary terms and the bibliography if there is one. Flip through each page of the book from start to finish, […]
There are countless websites and apps available to help you. Your success to learn what you missed in elementary, middle and high school now, as it did then, depends on you DOING the exercises and determining if their navigation systems get you through to the next stages effectively and of course if ANYTHING STICKS. In […]
No one can go back, but we all can make the MOST of what’s ahead. You need to learn ‘whatever it is’ on the first go because (1) you won’t have time later to learn it ‘again’ when you could have learned it on the first go because you’ll have other things to learn by […]
There are two types of people, those who LOVE and EMBRACE reading and those who DON’T LIKE to read and avoid it at all costs. The reason is the Mathew Effect: This is why learning to read is paramount and speed reading helps by either getting you through MORE material in the SAME amount of […]
In the video below, The Economist Magazine covers how technology could transform education post the COVID pandemic. It will be interesting to see what sticks versus what falls by the wayside. One of the challenges every student has is to optimise how to best study whether at home or back in school. There are proven […]
Teaching art to young students is rewarding because you see them have fun with their projects. Discover ways to teach this subject more effectively in class.
You’d think getting better grades means spending each hour of the day with your nose in your textbook. While adding hours to your daily study regimen might help, it’s not an ideal solution.
